A recommendations after the murders of three local women was to create a new offence in the Criminal Code that targets coercive control. (Alexander Behne/CBC - image credit)As Canada's government looks at Scotland's first few years of criminalizing coercive control, a Scottish advocate told CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning how the law works there. Experts in Canada and around the world define coercive control as a pattern of behaviours ranging from harassment and intimidation to isolating someone from family and social supports, all with the aim of keeping the victim under the abuser's control. One called on Ottawa to create a new offence in the Criminal Code that targets coercive control. Story continuesHe also said the government is monitoring how criminalizing coercive control is working in other jurisdictions, such as Scotland.

Source: CBC News August 24, 2023 16:56 UTC